Games like Exotic Matter

Remember how replayable and mysterious Exotic Matter felt at its best? These games are a good place to start.

Planet Explorers
Crash-landed on an alien planet, you dig, build, farm and fight your way to a new home. Voxel terrain you reshape anywhere, a creator for vehicles and weapons, a 30-hour story, and aliens you can befriend or go to war with.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Mysterious
62% of 6,817 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Unknown Planet
Your spacecraft has crash landed on an alien planet. Explore this unknown world, mine the resources, build your base, grow farms, craft equipment, fight off the alien lifeforms and survive.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Mysterious
97% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Voxile
Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Mysterious, Atmospheric
70% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Signs of Life
Crash-landed on an alien planet with nothing but a wrist laser and a sarcastic AI, you mine, craft and dig your way through a sci-fi survival sandbox that mixes hand-crafted ruins with procedural terrain. Bring a friend: it has online co-op, chickens, and aliens that mostly want you dead.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Mysterious
76% of 743 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$9.74
Lay of the Land
A voxel sandbox where the whole world obeys physics: fire spreads, water carves valleys, sand collapses, and every wall can come down. Explore a procedurally generated island, fight monsters and bosses, forge elemental weapons, and build anything from a hut to a castle. A relaxed, satisfying game that rewards poking at things.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
80% of 1,251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$13.99
Astrometica
Astrometica is a space survival game about starting over. Your mining station explodes, you wake in an emergency pod, and from there it is up to you: fly through asteroid fields, mine with lasers, scan wreckage for lost technology and build bases among the stars. Calm, atmospheric and unhurried, it rewards players who like exploring at their own pace.
Also in Survival crafting · Mysterious, Atmospheric
81% of 2,964 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$11.99
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
A space sandbox survival adventure: start in a crashed pod on an alien planet, mine, craft and build your way up to capital ships, planetary bases and space stations, then warp off to explore a whole galaxy. Play alone or with friends, and expect things to go gloriously wrong along the way.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
78% of 29,252 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 620$19.99
Metaverse
In Metaverse you will dig, discover, design, deploy, and defend. Explore, build upon, or tear apart your own procedurally generated voxel planet. And now in the early stages of our multiplayer implementation, help conquer or build the planets of others.
Replayable
36% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Rising World
A voxel sandbox with a fully destructible, procedurally generated world. Start with basic tools, dig, craft and build anything from a hut to a whole city, at your own pace. Playable solo or with friends, with seasons, tameable animals, boats and surprisingly good weather.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Atmospheric
85% of 5,347 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 102$14.99
Star Explorers
Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.
Replayable, Mysterious, Atmospheric
82% of 245 Steam reviews are positive$3.24
Starbound
You flee your destroyed home with a broken ship, beam down to survive, then roam a procedurally generated universe. Save the galaxy or ignore heroics to farm, build, collect creatures, and run colonies. Relaxed, colorful, and packed with things to make.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
92% of 120,671 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 868$14.99
Adaptory
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Mysterious, Atmospheric
76% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than Exotic Matter

Unknown Planet

Your spacecraft has crash landed on an alien planet. Explore this unknown world, mine the resources, build your base, grow farms, craft equipment…

$3.99

Voxile

Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands!

$17.99

Signs of Life

Mine ore, build a base and piece together a crashed world in a 2D survival sandbox, alone or with a friend.

$9.74

Lay of the Land

Mine, build and fight on an island where fire, water and physics reshape everything, alone or with friends.

$13.99

Astrometica

Mine asteroids, scan lost wreckage and build your own bases in a calm, open galaxy that lets you explore at your own pace.

$11.99

Star Explorers

Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race.

$3.24

Rising World

A voxel sandbox with a fully destructible, procedurally generated world.

$14.99

Starbound

Flee a broken past, then craft, build and explore colorful alien worlds at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$14.99

Wonderia

Survive, farm, build and morph on a procedurally generated alien planet, solo or with up to seven friends.

$13.99

Rodina

Fly a seamless solar system, land anywhere, fight aliens on foot and in your ship, and make the inside of your vessel your own.

$14.99

Elsewhere

Craft, build and automate your way through a bright open world full of magic, quests and secrets, alone or with friends.

$15.99

Lucid Blocks

Gather, craft and build your way through plastic cities and grassy voids, where recipes stay hidden and the night is not always kind.

$6.99

Hidden gems like Exotic Matter

AETHUS

Mine for answers, grow a home on the surface, and let a corporate mystery pull you further down.

$19.99

Colony 37

Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources.

$2.99

Elsewhere

Craft, build and automate your way through a bright open world full of magic, quests and secrets, alone or with friends.

$15.99

Lucid Blocks

Gather, craft and build your way through plastic cities and grassy voids, where recipes stay hidden and the night is not always kind.

$6.99

Eden Crafters

Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable.

$19.99

Lay of the Land

Mine, build and fight on an island where fire, water and physics reshape everything, alone or with friends.

$13.99

Wonderia

Survive, farm, build and morph on a procedurally generated alien planet, solo or with up to seven friends.

$13.99

Signs of Life

Mine ore, build a base and piece together a crashed world in a 2D survival sandbox, alone or with a friend.

$9.74

Astrometica

Mine asteroids, scan lost wreckage and build your own bases in a calm, open galaxy that lets you explore at your own pace.

$11.99

Cubic Odyssey

Explore procedurally generated planets, craft gear and ships, and fight the Red Darkness alone or with friends.

$24.99

Honeycomb: The World Beyond

Scan strange plants, crossbreed creatures and raise a base on Sota7, a planet that hides a mystery worth your patience.

$29.99

Mercury Fallen

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.

$24.99

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